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PokerStars Guarantees $8 Million for Anniversary Sunday Million
As is the tradition, PokerStars is celebrating the 8th anniversary of the Sunday Million by offering 8 times the guaranteed prize pool—$8 million—with a first place prize of at least $650,000.
- As is the tradition, PokerStars is celebrating the 8th anniversary of the Sunday Million by offering 8x times the guaranteed prize pool—$8 million—with a first place prize of at least $650,000.
- The buy-in is staying at $200+15, so the tournament, scheduled for March 2, will need to attract 40,000 players to cover the prize pool without cutting into their fee.
- Last year, the $7m guarantee attracted over 50,000 players and created a near $10m prize pool.
Partypoker New Jersey Launches Android App
Market leader is first to offer native app for Android devices.
- PartyPoker’s New Jersey online poker room has expanded its mobile offerings with a native Android app.
- All the major players in the New Jersey market have iOS apps in the official app store, but partypoker NJ is the first to offer it on Android.
Hero Poker Prepares Relaunch with Philippine-Focused Beta
Licensed in the Philippines and with tables in pesos, new beta soft-launch hints at a new direction.
- According to the site flag, it is licensed for real money gaming in the Philippines, and real money tables are spread in Philippine Pesos.
- The poker room is using Microgaming’s poker software, although it is understood that Hero will not join the main poker network, MPN, but remain independent.
- Hero Poker plans to run live events in the Philippines and Macau, with admission through online satellites and tickets available in the points store.
As Full Tilt’s MTOPS Enters Final Week, FTOPS Satellites Get Underway
Multi-entry tournament series promises big prizes for small buyins.
- MTOPS is exclusively multi-entry, allowing for big guarantees on small buyins.
- Event 73, a $14+$1 Turbo Pro Bounty tournament and the series’ main event, guarantees a $500,000 prize pool.
- Satellites for Full Tilt’s primary online poker series FTOPS get underway today, with special promotions to celebrate its 25th edition.
Portugal Ordered to Legalize Online Gambling this Month
Troika wants no more delays in tax revenue-raising online gaming regulation.
- The Portuguese government accepted the Troika’s demand for gaming market liberalization in a memorandum of understanding, but has delayed the implementation for political reasons.
- A high gaming tax rate of up to 25% may create a counterproductive environment where taxes are low and illegal activity high, but a lower rate of gaming tax appears to be politically impossible at the moment.
Picks from F5 Poker:
World Series of Poker Main Event Min Cash Chances
Table explains what it’s going to take to make the money this summer. We thought this was an interesting document you might want to take a look at. With the 2014 World Series of Poker under 100 days away and offering a guaranteed $10,000,000 first place prize, you might think that will effect how deep you need to get just to grab a little piece of that pie – and it does, just not as much as you might think.
Dwan, Selbst, Negreanu Get Analyzed On A Scale of 1To5
Training site breaks down big hands to teach you the game. There’s a lot of ways to approach learning the game of poker. Most people pay their dues, never get good and subsequently have the word “rigged” tattooed on their neck.
Jean-Robert Bellande Goes On The Record With Pal Steve Aoki
Bellande, Aoki and Fleyshman pose at the Aria. Your boy Jean-Robert Bellande can name drop with the best of them. Here he was kicking it at the Aria in Las Vegas with his crew – former Victory Poker head honcho Dan Fleyshman and Dim Mak Records label boss and electro house musician/producer Steve Aoki.
Danielle “dmoongirl” Andersen Gets To Work, Rolls Around With Terrence Chan
Easy contest for ladies to win tickets to UFC 170. That didn’t take long…
Global Poker Index Hangs The “Help Wanted” Sign
Bounty edition. Alexandre Dreyfus, the head honcho of the Global Poker Index (which owns The Hendon Mob) and the man smart enough to hire tournament stats whiz kid Eric Danis, is looking for more brilliant people to join his quest to empower the poker industry.
World Poker Tour Alpha8 Concludes With A Wild Ride
Top pros go on a post-game safari. Lynn Gilmartin and the World Poker Tour Alpha8 crew capture some amazing footage of the African landscape as the high-roller event concludes with a one-in-a-lifetime safari.
iPhone Proves Live Poker Is Rigged…(But Not Really)
New product claims to help players win every time… Consider us skeptics to this technology that can, simply by “seeing” the deck, tell you which hand in the rotation will win during a hand of Texas Hold’em. Flash the lens of the camera and then, using your earpiece, the iPhone will scream out which hand will win…even if the card look unlikely.
Poker Podcasts and Training Vids:
Podcast: #43 – Elky The Mental Game of Poker
The mental game is like a muscle. If you push yourself mentally,
whether it is to face your fears or develop a new skill, you can adapt
and grow stronger. My guest today on the Mental Game of Poker Podcast
is a true example of this. Bertand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier is very much
like my recent guest Jason Mercier. Like Mercier, he wins everything.
Like Mercier he has a reputation for running well. And just like Jason
Mercier, most people don’t realise how hard he works to get where he
is. ElkY is a world champion Starcraft player, a former SuperNova
Elite and one of the few men to hold the Triple Crown.
Training Video: faarcyde: Player Profiling At $100 Turbos Part III HUSNG
For the third video in this set, faarcyde takes on a regular, albeit still a player that faarcyde is not familiar with. faarcyde explains his own decisions, such as when to check-raise instead of check-call and how to rep, while he analyzes his opponent’s range and bet sizings. faarcyde spends a little time working with an ICM calculator and also finds himself facing a difficult decision late in the game.
Training Video: WCOOP 6max Shootout Hand History Review with Chris Moon Tournament Poker Edge
Chris Moon takes us on his deep run in the $320 6-max WCOOP Shootout. Each table is two parts and will be run as short, independent series leading up to a review of the final table with Jamie Kerstetter. This is the third table.
Training Video: Duel: Bovada Anonymous HUPLO – Part 4 Deuces Cracked
DJ finishes his anonymous PLO session vs. a loose-passive opponent by finally holding in an all-in situation. Features more discussion about common adjustments you can make to players who call too lightly, with discussion about which types of board textures to bet and barrel, which ones to check back, and the types of hands you’re looking for against loose-passive opponents.
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Checking Around
In our industry-focused picks from the discussion forums this week: Russian rings, self-exclusion, ratholing, Negreanu’s return, Unibet and Real Gaming’s launches and more. Players Allege Russian Multi-Accounting Ring Spanning Multiple Networks
Traffic Watch
Pokerfuse PRO’s exclusive review of the online poker market across international, US and regulated European markets. The entire online poker market has dropped 3.7% this week. Though this is the time when the market is expected to turn downwards, a drop of this size is unusual.
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